Logging in R

One of the most important aspect of an application is Logging. Since logs provide visibility into the behavior of a running app. Hence logs play a vital role in maintenance and enhancement of an application.

However, most of us are already aware with the importance of logging. That’s why we add them in our applications. But one thing that we are not aware of is that, the application should never be concerned with routing or storage of logs, i.e., it should not attempt to write to or manage logs or log files. Instead, each running process, within the application, writes logs to a stdout. In local environment, we can view the logs in the console whereas in staging/production environment, logs can be collated together in .log file(s).

Hence, in this blog post we will learn – how to collect, customize, and standardize R logs using log4r? But first let’s know what log4r is.

Read on for a demonstration of log4r and some of the settings you can choose.